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http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/jazz/YOURPAGE.HTM
In the decade following World War I, an artistic explosion occurred within theAfrican American community that produced a wealth of music, literature poetry, dance, social discourse and visual art. Jazz, a result of the Harlem Renaissance, originated from the musical minds of American Blacks. These include traits that survived from West African music black folk music forms developed in the New World
http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/books/arttumulte.htm http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/
http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/subject/social/depression.html#jazz
http://alephnull.net/20s/culture.html
"Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art." *
http://pages.emerson.edu/Courses/spring00/in123/workofart/benjamin.htm
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/roar.html
http://osgood.colgate.edu/tmaikels/jazz.html
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/20/context.htm
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html
FACTS about this decade. 106,521,537 people in the United States 2,132,000 unemployed, Unemployment 5.2% Life expectancy: Male 53.6, Female 54.6 343.000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in 1919) Average annual earnings $1236; Teacher's salary $970 Dow Jones High 100 Low 67 Illiteracy rate reached a new low of 6% of the population. Gangland crime included murder, swindles, racketeering It took 13 days to reach California from New York There were 387,000 miles of paved road. The 20s Copyrighted essays on the 20s
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/lit6.htm
http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317834/us317898/us71741/us591347/us558970/